Gabriel »Gabe« Holzner

Gabe is co-founder and art-director of seen. – he has spent a major part of his design studies in Kingston, Jamaica, where he first went to the Edna Manley College of Visual Arts for one semester before spending another couple of months at Melinda Brown’s Rocktower to work on his diploma project »FIRST – A Jamaican Magazine«.

The outcome of the project was the 2008 annual print-issue of the Jamaican online magazine FIRST founded by Peter Dean Rickards. Aside developing the visual concept of the magazine and layouting it, Gabe also did the illustrations for the authors’ articles and contributed four photo reports all shot in Kingston.

Gabe has since then e.g. worked for GQ magazine, Jetzt magazine / Sueddeutsche Zeitung, FIRST magazine, Alliance Entertainment, and Ce’Cile.